Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Imaging of Massive Clusters of Galaxies at Redshift z > 0.8

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2000-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0012052v2

Astrophys.J.551:L1-L4,2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/319833

We present Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) imaging observations of three distant (z > 0.8) and highly X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies, Cl1226+33, Cl0152-13 and MS1054-03. Two of the clusters, Cl1226+33 and Cl0152-13, were recently discovered in deep ROSAT x-ray images. Their high X-ray luminosity suggests that they are massive systems which, if confirmed, would provide strong constraints on the cosmological parameters of structure formation models. Our Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect data provide confirmation that they are massive clusters similar to the well studied cluster MS1054-03. Assuming the clusters have the same gas mass fraction as that derived from SZE measurements of eighteen known massive clusters, we are able to infer their mass and electron temperature from the SZE data. The derived electron temperatures are 9.8, 8.7, and 10.4 keV, respectively, and we infer total masses of ~2 x 10^14 h^-1 Msun within a radius of 65 arcsec (340 h^{-1} kpc) for all three clusters. For Cl0152-13 and MS1054-03 we find good agreement between our SZE derived temperatures and those inferred from X-ray spectroscopy. No X-ray derived temperatures are available for Cl1226+33, and thus the SZE data provide the first confirmation that it is indeed a massive system. The demonstrated ability to determine cluster temperatures and masses from SZE observations without access to X-ray data illustrates the power of using deep SZE surveys to probe the distant universe.

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